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Short: Send alpha-numeric pages to beepers
WHAT IT DOES
============
The CyberPager software allows one to send alpha-numeric pages from one's
Amiga. This is accomplished by dialing into an IXO protocol compliant
pager central and uploading messages.
FEATURES
========
o Aliases file allows for commonly paged people to be refered to by
name rather than having to remember cryptic PIN numbers.
o Groups file allows one to create "groups" allowing messages to
be easily sent to many people working on the same project, in the
same department, etc.
o Supports multiple pager centrals through a Services configuration
file.
o Any number of messages can be spooled to disk to be uploaded in
a single call to a service.
o Automatically breaks long messages up into seperate pages. Individual
preferences for maximum message length can be set for each account
listed in the aliases file.
o Dialer supports multiple modems and knows how to hunt down a free
modem in priority order.
o Full logging of messages spooled, dialout attempts, etc.
o Supports the OwnDevUnit.library method of locking serial devices,
making the dialer compatible with mith Amiga UUCP, Welmat, and
many major Amiga terminal programs.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
===================
Any Amiga running AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher.
A Hayes compatible modem.
OwnDevUnit.library v2.1 or higher must be installed (v3.3 is included
with this distribution for those that don't already have ODU)
Highly recommended:
A hard drive
A cron program (job scheduler) of some sort, such as CyberCron.
HISTORY
=======
1.0
Initial release
1.1 (7/10/93, SpoolPage v0.136, DialIXO v0.219, library v1.23)
A bug in the checksum generator manifested itself when talking
to services which are more strict about the IXO protocol.
Many IXO services accept a space instead of a zero in the checksum.
Some, like SkyTell, appear not to. DialIXO now uses zeros per
the IXO spec as written by Motorolla.
Added a loglevel 4 entry to DialIXO that causes it to log the
exact packet being sent to the service when uploading each
page.
Added a routine to intelligently add characters to the safe
buffer (i.e., non-printable characters converted to escaped
hex, etc, for display purposes). DialIXO know displays
special characters of the IXO protocol, such as ACK, NAK, STX,
etc., as text rather than hex escape sequences to make
tracing loglevel 5 output easier.
1.2 (7/20/93, SpoolPage v0.136, DialIXO v0.220, library v1.23)
Found a bug that affected people running KickStart V37. The
wildcard mask DialIXO used to look for spool files would not
find any that had a letter in them (i.e., 00000a as opposed
to 000009 which would work). This was due to the mask having
the alpha range specified in lowercase. V37 has a bug that
doesn't uppercase alphabetic letters when a case-insensitive
compare is being made. By changing the mask to specify the
alphabetics in uppercase, things now work properly on V37
machines. Thanks to Nickey MacDonald <i6t4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
for reporting this problem.